skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fascism is coming", yeah but not in the way they'd think. I shared a couple of CCC videos from 2013 with my younger Gen Z and Gen A siblings. I was looking forward to sharing some content from the CCC with them this year.

Here's the very difficult part, they all browse 4chan /g/ and sometimes 4chan /pol/ -- mind you we are all half asian (and the other half is not white).

I want them to focus on the technical talk offered by CCC, but the optics of someone who sounds like a man (and looks like a man) in a sparkly dress, they are going to get so caught up in that (like go ape-shit over it) any signal of technology or techno-geopolitical conversation will not make it through.
My childhood friend did this with his buddies. In our 20s they bought a big house in the suburbs and each had a room. They lived in that for a few years, and then when people started sprouting kids, some of them moved into the same building that was run as a coop. Eventually a lot of them were living in this coop.

So now when I go back to see him there's all these people there that I've known since forever, living in the same building. It's oddly comforting. They've struck the just-right balance between being too close and too far apart. They see each other regularly but there isn't a gathering every day.
Yes but investing in new, long-term friendships is a bit of an oxymoron. In order to do that, you have to pick one set of friends and then stick with them (cuz opportunity cost — the day is only so long). And once you've done so, you then have to stop investing in new friends and stick with those old ones.

Cities aren't very conducive to this in part because... people in cities tend to be more transient and their relationships more transactional. You have so much more choice, and the people you know have more choice, and people come and go.

In order to invest in long-term friendships, you need to be in a location where both you and the people you're making friends with are actually going to stay, and where both sides of the relationship are invested in the long-term nature of it.

This is much more likely to happen in a rural area than a city. I'd wager that constraining choice creates intimacy far moreso than alignment of interests. It's not about how much you like each other — it's about high-enough switching costs to hanging out with someone else that keep you together over a very long period of time.

In a city, even if you find the most compatible friend ever... there's also going to be 50 people almost as compatible (and vice versa for the people you're hanging out with).

In a rural area, you might not find someone you're perfectly compatible with... but they're far more likely to be the only person in the area with interests that are that aligned... and that creates intimacy... which will only make you more like them and them more like you.
> It still irks me that Chinese LLM weights don’t know anything about Tiananmen Square, and western LLMs from Silicon Valley embed their own personal white guilt.

"White guilt" is not a thing. It's just talk. What useful information can a reasonable person expect to get from a disingenuous racist LLM query? (Other than reaffirming their beliefs with well-known racist tropes.) Fortunately, questions which are designed to appease racist egos are easily detected since they (apparently) occur so often.

Governments are going to be throwing billions at these LLM companies. Why jeopardize that by allowing your LLM to spew racist nonsense as fact? Perhaps this is what you mean by "white guilt"? Do note that this so called "white guilt" leads to white people (programmers/managers) making millions (billions?), and African Americans nothing. Maybe reconsider where you are assigning blame for these "transgressions".
Page title: Track Company Pay Periods & Payment Schedules (no mention of AI)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.
why does renting force you to move? how does owning a home allow you to stay if other considerations may force you to sell the house and buy another one?

my mother lives in a rental apartment that my family has been in since 150 years ago.
My prompt is meaningless. When I tell AI to proofread my writing or to generate a boilerplate email, pretty much no part of my prompt makes it into the final product. It's a seed of entropy that gets a literary flywheel spinning, but I'm not so pretentious as to assume my 3-word query is somehow unique or even influences the tone of the output. It's not "my" response just because I gave it a question.

Pretty much the past 5 years of model finetuning has been predicated on the idea that AI cannot reliably steer itself in the right direction. Models perform better in almost every way when you seed them with additional, non-unique and human-generated training data.
From the NTSB report:

2.3.3 Descent and Ditching Airspeed

As noted, the flight crew was not able to initiate part 2 of the Engine Dual Failure checklist, which contained airspeed guidance for pilots to follow if an engine restart is considered impossible and a ditching is anticipated. The checklist states that, when an engine restart is considered impossible, the optimum airspeed at which to fly is the green dot speed.

Despite not reaching this portion of the Engine Dual Failure checklist, the captain stated during postaccident interviews that he thought that he had obtained green dot speed immediately after the bird strike, maintained that speed until the airplane was configured for landing, and, after deploying the flaps, maintained a speed “safely above Vls,” which is the lowest selectable
airspeed providing an appropriate margin to the stall speed. However, FDR data indicated that the airplane was below green dot speed and at Vls or slightly less for most of the descent, and about 15 to 19 knots below Vls during the last 200 feet.

The NTSB concludes that the captain’s difficulty maintaining his intended airspeed during the final approach resulted in high AOAs, which contributed to the difficulties in flaring the airplane, the high descent rate at touchdown, and the fuselage damage. (See additional discussion in section 2.7.1.)

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
Archaelogy of the mind is an enjoyable marathon but a marathon nonetheless. Audiobook therefore highly recommended, as well. If you get past the "seeking" system section it will probably reframe your entire view of consciousness, intelligence, and what it means to be human. You will cringe significantly harder at the concept of LLMs becoming AGI once you get past the part on "primary affective processes". Self-assembling brain will help reconcile those conversations. And then evolutionary algos will help you build that brain out! Keep posting!!
Manufacturers are putting more and more plastic into things to cut costs it seems.

My favorite pour over coffee maker almost entirely had water in contact with metal and glass during brewing. Glass reservoir, glass decanter, metal grounds basket - only rubber tubes going from reservoir to heating element.

When it died (your average coffee maker only lasts 5 years) all of their newer more expensive models had mostly plastic everything except for the decanter.
Well, certainly some HTML ... but mostly vanilla javascript. Which in its own right is also beautiful.
https://github.com/search?q=lang%3A%22Common+Lisp%22+%22%28l... and https://github.com/search?q=lang%3A%22Common+Lisp%22+%22(lam... indeed gives quite a lot of results.

A (possibly stupid) question: is it possible to generalize this pattern and will it bring any kind of improvements? I'm thinking that for functions shaped like (LAMBDA () X), where X is a literal object or a lexical variable, COMPILE can keep a hash-table with the X being its weak keys and the respective compiled functions being their values. Whenever a form like (LAMBDA () X) is encountered as an argument to COMPILE, it can "intern" the function in the table (if necessary) and return it.

I have no idea if it would bring any or a lot of gains besides the cases for NIL (and maybe T) because of CONSTANTLY and closures, but it's a thought that came to my mind upon first reading this commit.
If that's what an industrial-strength compiler for a relatively niche language has to do, imagine what special cases LLVM and GCC have to deal with!
Ah yes, so it is
I'm very skeptical of books. I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.

- Sam Bankman-Fried
I love the idea of this type of app, but feel like local storage is too fragile to be the system of record. Any way to backup to disk or cloud storage?
This is it. It’s proximity.

Let’s say you’re interested in transformers. In a big city, you could go to a meetup, talk to different people working on this stuff at a production level (maybe there’s even some guy who works on it at Google), talk about tips or pitfalls that no one ever publishes and potentially have the conversation veer off to DuckDB or some obscure topic. When you have a gathering of like minds, the conversation can go in unpredictable directions and you can potentially land in very interesting places.

In a less urban area, this is far less likely to happen because there are just fewer people with the same interests (unless you’re lucky). I grew up with friends who were absolutely brilliant (high fluid intelligence) who come from farming families. But they just weren’t interested in what I was interested in. The core of intellectual pursuit isn’t just smart people, but the confluence of people who have the same interests and who are also well positioned.

You might ask, can’t you just learn this stuff online and talk to people on Reddit? But the reality is that positive effects of randomness require real life undirected interactions with the right people.

(This is for instance why people are willing to relocate to a cold city like Montreal (-30°C/-22°F in the winter) to work in Bengio’s lab for a couple of years, just so they can overhear lunchtime conversations about how to train certain models. A lot of this knowledge is caught and not taught.)

I’ve gotten so many ideas from just random conversations with well positioned people who happened to be doing something important and interesting. It’s not just about being smart.
I'd love to see a list of such curious commits!
Is this a GPL-violating project? Where's the kernel source?
I am not familiar with Polish law about corruption or lobbying but if some politicians are getting money, that is a starting point.
Games are incidentally computer programs, but what's relevant is that they're audiovisual content. Video capture of video would infringe on copyrights which is what video games are.
People who care about music listen to specific artists the know, not some AI-slop auto-generated playlist.
Using the anki connect addon you could do all this in under an hour fyi
And to actually answer the question: 2 and 50.

You’re replacing half the staff each year. Any given month you expect to lose .5 and 25 employees respectively. With a lead time of 3-4 months in the former, that means during any given hiring cycle you expect to lose 1-2 employees. Anyone interviewing during slot is eligible, even if a role is not open _right that second_. For the latter, 25-50.

One thing applicants don’t realize is that by keeping the pipeline full I can fill a position “immediately” upon vacancy. If it had to start up a hiring pipeline it’d take 3 months. This means that in aggregate the hiring process is _more efficient_ than it otherwise would be. This means that _you get hired_ more quickly than you otherwise would. A cold-start wouldn’t necessarily improve your odds, it’d just make the whole process longer and more expensive for everyone.
Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0
i read the parent comment as the desire for isolation being the cause of suburbs,
I used Bench in the past and they partnered with Taxfyle up until ~November 2023 (date of the email I received stating the partnership was ending).

The service was fine, interesting that their relationship ended just over a year ago.
I never formally did "extreme programming" or "agile", but I learned a lot indirectly from observing thought leaders like Kent Beck (and Ward Cunningham, Robert Martin etc.) back in the day. Good to see that they're still around.
Yes, that's covered in the article, e.g.

> Input data, especially descriptions of available dependencies, should be specified such that we can reproduce it for any previous run. This is the problem many legacy systems struggle with: e.g. deferring important details to some HTTP response, with no way to validate its consistency (it’s usually not consistent, due to new versions being included in queries!). This is the main problem with legacy tools, which makes their users resort to lock files.

The article is pointing out that these are mistakes, in the hope that developers of new packaging tools will stop copying them. In the mean time, those of us stuck using those tools will need to keep working around their problems using hacks like lock files.
High density living in a downtown area is inversely correlated with having a family across a wide selection of different countries though. The highest density countries like Korea and Japan have some of the lowest fertility rates.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34914431/
Everything you ever wanted to know about "hello, world" [pdf]
> What's to be done?

Our society would need to re-think its norms around moving away in order to move upward, which runs into some pretty big philosophical ideas around geography, culture, and values. For technologists, this cultural movement is still in a bit of a philosophical stage, but it's starting to make its way into some early experiments. https://www.plurality.net/ is probably the best written work on it so far.
SpaceX seeks FCC authorization for series of upcoming [Lunar] Starship missions
In a situation like this, someone with a contract not receiving consideration mere days after signing can probably just not pay. It would be very difficult for a company in the midst of shutting down to fight anyway.
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights shows breakdown by country, type, industry sector. "Highest fines: individual" top 10 list is all international companies (Meta, Amazon, TikTok, LinkedIn, Uber) and those make the news. Smaller European companies hardly make the news.
US was using civilian aircrafts for spying at the time too.
I made a somewhat similar zsh shell script the other day: U wanted to receive daily notifications about topics I'm comfortable with but in spanish b1 level and at semi random interval. It's just a couple lines of zsh : https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/Daily_Fact_Ntfy
Spotify would probably argue that Apple has control of the OS, so they can surface all of their apps, pre-install them, whereas Spotify has more pressure to leverage their existing install base by bundling everything into one.

I would bet every dollar of my net worth that they are critically wrong on this; its such a beautiful little package that some VP can sell a higher-up to explain away why something they're responsible for isn't performing as expected. I've heard dozens of people complain about how crowded the Spotify app is becoming. I don't know anyone who actively and regularly uses Spotify as a podcast platform; when Joe Rogan was exclusive to Spotify for a bit, I heard a couple people complain about that, which means they were (begrudgingly) using it; but that isn't the situation anymore.

How these complaints convert into behavior changes, subscription cancellations, etc; I don't know.
Instead, US senators will rail about the security risk of Chinese vehicles while refusing to provide competitive alternatives.
The author's themselves acknowledged this very point as the most important weakness of the study:

Firstly and perhaps most importantly, selection
bias is possible because individuals who are at higher
risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease may be less
likely to enter or remain in memory intensive driving
occupations such as taxi and ambulance driving.
This could mean that the lower Alzheimer’s disease
mortality observed in these occupations is not due to
the protective effect of the job itself but rather because
those prone to the disease may have self-selected out
of such roles. However, Alzheimer’s disease symptoms
typically develop after patients’ working years, with
only 5-10% of cases occurring in people younger than
65 years (early onset).

Their explanation however only holds if pretty much all taxi drivers retire at 65 which is clearly not the case. It also ignores the relative prestige of professions. If your father both owned a store and drove a taxi for awhile which will you put on the death cert? Then do airline pilot plus owned a store.

Also dunking on studies is very much the point. The goal is to challenge beliefs and figure out where we are wrong.
The government assumes it is in charge of everything, and accountable to and for nothing.

People are always responsible for their own actions. If anyone else was responsible then people would become objects to be acted upon and no longer people.

The current practice I call "accountability laundering".

This is where you create situations where somehow no one is accountable. Where no one knows who to point a finger at.

This causes like 90% of the worlds problems. People create systems this way on purpose. Public companies, private equity, governments, huge orgs where no one is actually at the helm.

All so no one can point a finger when something goes wrong.
Completely ignorant here. What happens to individuals that are ineligible for passport issuance? Are they just extra-screwed?
> Frankly, shameful. Editors, especially in mathematics, should be able to judge the work on its merits.

You might end up receiving hundreds of (perhaps AI-generated) submissions every day and reviewers would just refuse to read any of it.
Or taxi drivers with Alzheimer's get fired or quit
This is why my favorite typing system is Go’s; and apparently now working with Typescript, it also has a similarly powerful and descriptive one.
But how can we sell all that delicious data, then?
Related more recently:

Ghost artists on Spotify

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461530
You could also provide your own terminal benchmarks; that would help Mitchell debug if needed.
> Everyone thinking politics is only about 2 parties and some controversial thinkg to even utter is the successful propaganda.

You keep making a point that no one is bringing up. Not only I don’t believe that, as a non-US citizen living in Europe I don’t even care about your two parties.

But there’s quite a stretch between “humans are biased” and “what you think about how society should work influences absolutely everything you do”.

As a silly example, I have quite a collection of music. I keep physical copies of the ones I think are more important to me. If a future archeologist were to find them, they’d get a biased picture of what people listen.

But my taste in music has nothing to do with my beliefs about politics. There’s artists there with every type of conviction, from different eras, from different countries,..

“Everything is political” is a great slogan for activists to get people to do what you want them to do, but like all slogans it’s not actually true.
Using Kernel TLS (kTLS) (2023)
No SNI:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230204215347if_/https://deltha...
Nothing. Stay with your wife’s social circle, stay in touch with your old friends, and build community where you are with your family. Children are a fantastic icebreaker and way to meet people.
Sure, but paying Fairphone 5 prices for a less-powerful Fairphone 4, and then needing to flash an aftermarket ROM on it and live forevermore in a grey area support-wise? The value proposition just isn't there for me.
Those business people still can't quantify what their skilled workers do for then though, so they hastily conclude the AI is a suitable or even improved replacement.
> but is it really what we want?

What we want is results. Whatever mechanism is most efficient at producing those results should be used.

> Copyright is the root of the problem.

If you sell me a device that relies on copyrighted software for operation then you must also grant me a limited non-transferable license tied to that specific device to modify that software however I please. Perhaps DMCAs anti tampering provisions are really the issue here.
Will we ever have crystal clear night photography?
The very idea of the Transformer architecture. Surely you've heard of "Attention is all you need".
Yes it exists and is called FSRS

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki
Sofa King stupid. Why add this shit that is a liability?

Maybe legal needs to have a talk with marketing.
This summary of the book excerpt/Harper's article https://futurism.com/spotify-accused-promoting-ghost-artists provides a short, punchy summary:

> Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones

[...]

> According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists.

> In an excerpt from "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" published in Harper's, author Liz Pelly reveals that the streaming platform has a secretive internal program that prioritizes cheap and generic music.

> Dubbed "Perfect Fit Content" or PFC for short, this program not only involved a network of affiliated production firms creating tons of "low-budget stock muzak" for the platform, but also a team of employees who surreptitiously placed tracks from those firms on Spotify's curated playlists.

I think the mods should change this post to link to the Harper's piece, or even the Futurism one.

More broadly, it is interesting how Spotify is following the path blazed by supermarkets, then by video streaming services, in starting to sell (and promote, and prioritise) own-brand content. (Of course the Futurism summary is itself an example of a related problematic practice ...)
Don't miss the DIY...

https://www.plasticlist.org/diy
Specific anti virus, fleet management, etc.
Excellent choice of aircraft. The 777 is one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time.
I’ve been wondering if OpenAI’s updates ruin other applications or utility? Kinda makes me skeptical of global models. Obviously OpenAI is optimizing and changing how they train their models. Makes sense to me you’d lose some of the quirks. I think this is actually the promise of open weight models. Personally, I’ve never used ChatGPT, Claude, whatever. I’ve found a decent amount of utility in just the open weight models.
Every other protocol I've used has a standard way to encode arbitrary data, but especially text data, usually using some kind of escape sequence. SSE does not.

Just because it has been around for a long time does not mean it is well thought out or complete.
> I only see them once or twice a year, if that (less right now because we're all in the "very young kids" stage). I miss them.

How often do you think you would see them if you lived in the same city?

If you see them twice a year, for a few days straight, I think you are doing really well and I am sure they appreciate the effort you make.

Can you cut the difference and go camping once a year or every second year for a week or two as a family? So their kids and your kids get to know each other, and maybe your wife and theirs too.
thank you. I'll try to obtain access to this paper.
Landlab: A modular Earth Surface Dynamics modeling library
There is a movement called Cohousing that I don’t think gets enough attention.

I prefer to call it Tiny Neighborhoods, which is basically what the article describes.

If interested, I did a 3,000 word deep dive into the specifics of how tiny neighborhoods have worked over the past 50 years…

https://iambateman.com/tiny